J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: The Upper Belvedere from close to the Fountain with Sculpture Figures in the Centre of the Gardens 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: The Upper Belvedere from close to the Fountain with Sculpture Figures in the Centre of the Gardens’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Vienna: The Upper Belvedere from close to the Fountain with Sculpture Figures in the Centre of the Gardens 1833
D31425
Turner Bequest CCCXI 5 v
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view showing Vienna’s Upper Belvedere was taken from the formal gardens, near the fountain. Sculptures can be seen at centre and at right.
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31417, D31421–D31423, D31426–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a, 3a–4a, 6–13, 14–15, 16–19, 20–22, 28–28a, 64a, 92, 94. For views in the 1840 Trieste, Graz and Danube sketchbook see Tate D30008, D30011, D30013, D30019, D30076–D30077; Turner Bequest CCXCIX 4, 5a, 6a, 9a, 40–40a.
This folio is not recorded in A.J. Finberg’s A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest (1909).

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: The Upper Belvedere from close to the Fountain with Sculpture Figures in the Centre of the Gardens 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-vienna-the-upper-belvedere-from-close-to-the-fountain-with-r1203440, accessed 22 July 2024.